Portale

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ARLENE PORTALE, Case No. 19-cv-04096-SBA (JSC)

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE DISCOVERY LETTER

v. BRIEF

CVS PHARMACY, INC., et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 24, 32 Defendants.

12 This action has been referred to the undersigned magistrate judge for resolution of discovery disputes. Now pending before the Court is a joint discovery dispute letter regarding Defendants’ discovery responses. (Dkt. Nos. 24, 32.) The letter was first filed on July 1, 2020. Plaintiff’s motion to compel is untimely. The fact discovery cut off was March 31, 2020. (Dkt. No. 22.) Under Northern District of California Local Rule 37-3, any motion to compel had to be filed no more than “7 days after the fact discovery cut-off”; thus, the last day to file the motion to compel/joint discovery letter was April 7, 2020. Indeed, the Pretrial Order itself warned that the “deadline to file motions to compel is governed by the Local Rules.” (Dkt. No. 22.) Plaintiff’s motion to…